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I keep seeing people say that Graham Platner's ex-campaign manager is on a "revenge tour." What evidence is there of that? She quit her own job, cited ethical concerns at the time, & then stayed silent for months. Is telling the truth about a problematic person "revenge?"
Platner didn't fire her. She quit. Because of the Totenkopf & other reasons. Then she stayed silent for a long time. Then she confirmed some things to journalists. If she's on a "revenge tour" what's the revenge in response to?
I mean, personally, I think people are just being idiots & buying Platner's lies without pausing for even a moment. But, say he's telling what he believes to be the truth. Why is his former campaign manager seeking revenge against him right now? What did he do?
This sort of depressive slagging of positive aspects of right wing culture while talking up the left, coming from "le based right wing" accounts feels like a form of cuckoldry.
It's not constructive criticism or sincere analysis, so what's the point of degrading your own side?
It's not constructive criticism or sincere analysis, so what's the point of degrading your own side?
If he said, "There are too many fat right wingers," he'd have a point (even if a lot of them are blue collar workers, who do physical activity, they're just otherwise unhealthy). But we know where this meme came from & that there's a lot of truth to the stereotypes behind it.
And RW gym culture and memes pushes people on the right to be BETTER about this, so dissing it seems very counterproductive.
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Gundam is the first major franchise to really find broad success by having a core appeal to both guys and girls and was followed by a long line of highly successful series following this archetype: "A girl's story with fanservice for guys"/"a boy's story with fanservice for gals"
It is very difficult to make something both Boys and Girls like almost equally. Usually it has to involve cute critters for this to work (pokemon). However, it is shockingly easy to make something that's for "Boys and Women" or for "Girls and Men".
Usually this involves things that go over the younger target audience's head and are squarely aimed for the older audience who is burdened by chaperoning the younger audience member to see the film or monitor their TV watching.
Stress makes your body age faster. But there’s one thing that helps reverse the damage.
It’s not sleep. And we were taught it 1400 years ago.
It’s not sleep. And we were taught it 1400 years ago.
Stress doesn’t just affect your mind.
It ages you.
Faster.
Deep inside your body - at the ends of your DNA - are tiny protective caps called telomeres.
Think of them like the tips of shoelaces. They protect your cells.
It ages you.
Faster.
Deep inside your body - at the ends of your DNA - are tiny protective caps called telomeres.
Think of them like the tips of shoelaces. They protect your cells.
Every time your cells divide, telomeres shorten. When they become too short, cells weaken, age faster, and die.
This is part of your biological clock.
And science found something terrifying:
This is part of your biological clock.
And science found something terrifying:
the five-second epistemology of: Karp told you the truth and the kitchen signs off on every word · the protection is the product · the spam is the marketing · the only thing the overlord kills is your bonus · there is no overlord, there is a case, and you are its unpaid sales force · so here is the cookbook — step one is you put the thing down and pick the machine up
— WINDOW 1 OF 20 · THE AGREEMENT —
Karp, CEO of Palantir, on a stage, to a room: "You may hate this, but there's one person protecting your right to be a conspiracy theorist that actually has a seat at the table — and that person is me."
He is not lying. The kitchen signs off. One hundred percent. Every word in that sentence is true, and the kitchen is not going to spend a single line arguing with it. Read it again, slowly, because the kitchen is about to agree with it harder than Karp meant it, and the agreement is going to end the conversation you keep having in the replies.
Yes. He is protecting you. He has a seat at the table and you do not. He is using that seat, spending real political capital, to keep your right to theorize wide open. This is not sarcasm and it is not a trap the kitchen is setting for him. It is the most honest sentence a tech CEO has said out loud this year. The man stood up and told you the arrangement to your face, and the room heard a defense of free speech, and the kitchen heard an invoice.
Because this is the second piece, and it comes right after the first one. The first one told you there is no "capitalist class." There is no cabal sitting at a table deciding things. "Class" is a statistical category — a bin you sort cases into after the fact — and the moment you let a category take an action, you have made a category error. Richard von Mises laid the floor under this a century ago: probability is a property of the collective, never of the single case. The class is where frequencies live. It is not where decisions live. Decisions live in cases. And the kitchen told you to stop theorizing about the ghost and go take the case's lunch.
— WINDOW 1 OF 20 · THE AGREEMENT —
Karp, CEO of Palantir, on a stage, to a room: "You may hate this, but there's one person protecting your right to be a conspiracy theorist that actually has a seat at the table — and that person is me."
He is not lying. The kitchen signs off. One hundred percent. Every word in that sentence is true, and the kitchen is not going to spend a single line arguing with it. Read it again, slowly, because the kitchen is about to agree with it harder than Karp meant it, and the agreement is going to end the conversation you keep having in the replies.
Yes. He is protecting you. He has a seat at the table and you do not. He is using that seat, spending real political capital, to keep your right to theorize wide open. This is not sarcasm and it is not a trap the kitchen is setting for him. It is the most honest sentence a tech CEO has said out loud this year. The man stood up and told you the arrangement to your face, and the room heard a defense of free speech, and the kitchen heard an invoice.
Because this is the second piece, and it comes right after the first one. The first one told you there is no "capitalist class." There is no cabal sitting at a table deciding things. "Class" is a statistical category — a bin you sort cases into after the fact — and the moment you let a category take an action, you have made a category error. Richard von Mises laid the floor under this a century ago: probability is a property of the collective, never of the single case. The class is where frequencies live. It is not where decisions live. Decisions live in cases. And the kitchen told you to stop theorizing about the ghost and go take the case's lunch.
— WINDOW 2 OF 20 · THE AGREEMENT —
This piece is that piece pointed at one case. The case is named Palantir. And the CEO of the case just walked on stage and confirmed the entire thesis without meaning to.
Here is the move, and you have to hold two sentences side by side to see it. The thing protecting your right to call Palantir an all-seeing overlord, and the thing that needs you to call it an all-seeing overlord, are the same thing. They are the same man, on the same stage, in the same sentence. He is not protecting free speech as a principle. He is protecting demand generation. The conspiracy theory is the moat. The conspiracy theory is the product description. The conspiracy theory is the pitch deck, and you are writing it for free, on your own time, with your own attention, and he is so grateful that he will go to a Senate committee and defend your right to keep writing it.
Finish his sentence for him. Why is it worth a Palantir CEO's table-seat to protect your right to be a conspiracy theorist? A man with a defense-deployment contract and a hundred-billion-dollar market cap does not spend capital on a hobby. He spends it on inventory. Your theory that Palantir sees everything, knows everything, runs everything, is the inventory. Every hour you spend building that theory in a thread is an hour Palantir is being marketed — for free, by you — as the company that sees everything, knows everything, runs everything. That is the whole sale. The product does not have to work. The myth that it works is the product, and the myth is made entirely of your fear.
So the kitchen agrees with Karp and then keeps walking, off the cliff he stopped at. He says: stop attacking the one man with a seat at the table who protects you. He is right. You are attacking your protector. The kitchen says: stop being a conspiracy theorist, because being a conspiracy theorist is the job he hired you for and never paid you for. Same diagnosis. The kitchen just will not leave you sitting in the chair he wants you in. He wants you dumb and afraid and productive — productive for him. The kitchen wants you dangerous and producing for yourself.
This piece is that piece pointed at one case. The case is named Palantir. And the CEO of the case just walked on stage and confirmed the entire thesis without meaning to.
Here is the move, and you have to hold two sentences side by side to see it. The thing protecting your right to call Palantir an all-seeing overlord, and the thing that needs you to call it an all-seeing overlord, are the same thing. They are the same man, on the same stage, in the same sentence. He is not protecting free speech as a principle. He is protecting demand generation. The conspiracy theory is the moat. The conspiracy theory is the product description. The conspiracy theory is the pitch deck, and you are writing it for free, on your own time, with your own attention, and he is so grateful that he will go to a Senate committee and defend your right to keep writing it.
Finish his sentence for him. Why is it worth a Palantir CEO's table-seat to protect your right to be a conspiracy theorist? A man with a defense-deployment contract and a hundred-billion-dollar market cap does not spend capital on a hobby. He spends it on inventory. Your theory that Palantir sees everything, knows everything, runs everything, is the inventory. Every hour you spend building that theory in a thread is an hour Palantir is being marketed — for free, by you — as the company that sees everything, knows everything, runs everything. That is the whole sale. The product does not have to work. The myth that it works is the product, and the myth is made entirely of your fear.
So the kitchen agrees with Karp and then keeps walking, off the cliff he stopped at. He says: stop attacking the one man with a seat at the table who protects you. He is right. You are attacking your protector. The kitchen says: stop being a conspiracy theorist, because being a conspiracy theorist is the job he hired you for and never paid you for. Same diagnosis. The kitchen just will not leave you sitting in the chair he wants you in. He wants you dumb and afraid and productive — productive for him. The kitchen wants you dangerous and producing for yourself.
— WINDOW 3 OF 20 · THE AGREEMENT / THE INVOICE —
This matters because the kitchen and Karp are, structurally, telling you the same thing, and that overlap is not a coincidence — it is the reason the kitchen respects him. Karp understands marketing better than almost anyone alive. He understands that a story does more work than a feature, that a myth scales where a sales call does not, that the cheapest customer-acquisition channel ever invented is a frightened person explaining your power to strangers. He is not wrong about any of it. He is the best in the world at the thing the kitchen is telling you to stop being a victim of.
And the kitchen will go further, because this is where it gets funny. The kitchen even built the competing product. Bespoke Ontology. The name is the joke and the thesis: a forward-deployed engineer fused with a McKinsey senior partner, all the overhead stripped off, sold direct. The kitchen is, right now, trying to take Palantir's business. The kitchen is telling you, in writing, that it can outperform Palantir on the only thing Palantir actually does. And Palantir's CEO is telling you, in writing, to go be a conspiracy theorist instead of building anything. Look at his book if you want the whole tell. Look at the word "ontology" sitting in his company's product copy and then sitting in the kitchen's company name. You are watching two operations use the same word and point you in opposite directions. One says: theorize about the overlord. The other says: become the thing the overlord is overcharging for.
That is the whole piece, and the windows that follow are the kitchen showing its work and then handing you the tools — the invoice, the spam, the loop, the kill, the data centers, the bubble that is not a bubble, the case behind the costume, the cookbook, and the contract you are going to take. This is the same instruction the kitchen gave you in the labor piece, the one that came in right before all this: there is no class to topple, there is only the case in front of you, and the machine on your bench is how you take its lunch. Karp is not lying. You are the marketing. Quit — and start building.
This matters because the kitchen and Karp are, structurally, telling you the same thing, and that overlap is not a coincidence — it is the reason the kitchen respects him. Karp understands marketing better than almost anyone alive. He understands that a story does more work than a feature, that a myth scales where a sales call does not, that the cheapest customer-acquisition channel ever invented is a frightened person explaining your power to strangers. He is not wrong about any of it. He is the best in the world at the thing the kitchen is telling you to stop being a victim of.
And the kitchen will go further, because this is where it gets funny. The kitchen even built the competing product. Bespoke Ontology. The name is the joke and the thesis: a forward-deployed engineer fused with a McKinsey senior partner, all the overhead stripped off, sold direct. The kitchen is, right now, trying to take Palantir's business. The kitchen is telling you, in writing, that it can outperform Palantir on the only thing Palantir actually does. And Palantir's CEO is telling you, in writing, to go be a conspiracy theorist instead of building anything. Look at his book if you want the whole tell. Look at the word "ontology" sitting in his company's product copy and then sitting in the kitchen's company name. You are watching two operations use the same word and point you in opposite directions. One says: theorize about the overlord. The other says: become the thing the overlord is overcharging for.
That is the whole piece, and the windows that follow are the kitchen showing its work and then handing you the tools — the invoice, the spam, the loop, the kill, the data centers, the bubble that is not a bubble, the case behind the costume, the cookbook, and the contract you are going to take. This is the same instruction the kitchen gave you in the labor piece, the one that came in right before all this: there is no class to topple, there is only the case in front of you, and the machine on your bench is how you take its lunch. Karp is not lying. You are the marketing. Quit — and start building.
THE POLICE WOULD RATHER BREAK THE LAW THAN OFFEND STAFF TRANS ACTIVIST NETWORKS
@gwentpolice consider themselves above the law.
So we’ve served a Letter Before Action on them.
Story by Rebecca Camber at @Mailonline.
More details below 👇
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@gwentpolice consider themselves above the law.
So we’ve served a Letter Before Action on them.
Story by Rebecca Camber at @Mailonline.
More details below 👇
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Gwent police are STILL permitting men to use women’s workplace facilities – including showers, changing rooms and toilets.
They refer to this in an internal policy as an ‘entitlement’.
Astonishingly, this policy was reviewed AFTER the Supreme Court made the Equality Act crystal clear.
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They refer to this in an internal policy as an ‘entitlement’.
Astonishingly, this policy was reviewed AFTER the Supreme Court made the Equality Act crystal clear.
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The WRN Wales deputy coordinator, wrote to Gwent Chief Constable Mark Hobrough, pointing out their error in law, and seeking a meeting.
DCC Nicola Brain, (who also carried out the policy review in June 2025) dismissed this, and decided a meeting was not ‘appropriate’.
However, a referral of any upset staff to trans organisation Mermaids, in communications issued after the judgment is ‘appropriate’?
You decide.
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DCC Nicola Brain, (who also carried out the policy review in June 2025) dismissed this, and decided a meeting was not ‘appropriate’.
However, a referral of any upset staff to trans organisation Mermaids, in communications issued after the judgment is ‘appropriate’?
You decide.
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How to talk about Non-Domiciled CDLs without being racist.
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2/13 - So What's the Problem?
There are anywhere from 200,000 to 600,000+ people driving semi-trucks in the U.S. with illegal non-domiciled CDLs.
Many were rushed through CDL training schools of dubious means and origins.
This insourced labor pool often works for rates much lower than American truckers. US trucking companies didn’t understand why rates kept going down.
American truckers are mad.
There are anywhere from 200,000 to 600,000+ people driving semi-trucks in the U.S. with illegal non-domiciled CDLs.
Many were rushed through CDL training schools of dubious means and origins.
This insourced labor pool often works for rates much lower than American truckers. US trucking companies didn’t understand why rates kept going down.
American truckers are mad.
3/13 - Step 1. Don't be racist
The word racism was coined and gained popularity in the early 20th century. Eugenics became popular in the US and Germany shortly thereafter, until the end of WWII... obviously.
Life gets easier when we realize that there’s one race, the human race.
That doesn’t ignore our natural proclivity towards tribalism, but it allows us to understand it.
Each human being has inherent dignity.
That doesn’t mean you can’t get mad at another person, but it does mean that person has worth.
The word racism was coined and gained popularity in the early 20th century. Eugenics became popular in the US and Germany shortly thereafter, until the end of WWII... obviously.
Life gets easier when we realize that there’s one race, the human race.
That doesn’t ignore our natural proclivity towards tribalism, but it allows us to understand it.
Each human being has inherent dignity.
That doesn’t mean you can’t get mad at another person, but it does mean that person has worth.
The American sailors who served on her called the USS Laffey the ship that would not die.
Off Okinawa in 1945, 22 Japanese aircraft singled her out over the course of a single attack.
She was hit by six kamikazes and four bombs in 80 minutes.
32 of her crew were killed. She stayed afloat and kept firing.
This is the story of the USS Laffey..🧵1/6
Off Okinawa in 1945, 22 Japanese aircraft singled her out over the course of a single attack.
She was hit by six kamikazes and four bombs in 80 minutes.
32 of her crew were killed. She stayed afloat and kept firing.
This is the story of the USS Laffey..🧵1/6
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The USS Laffey was an Allen M. Sumner class destroyer built at Bath Iron Works in Maine. She was commissioned in February 1944. She was just over 376 feet long and carried a crew of around 336 men.
She was named after Seaman Bartlett Laffey, a Civil War sailor who had earned the Medal of Honor. She was the second ship to carry the name. The first USS Laffey had been sunk in a point blank gun battle with Japanese warships off Guadalcanal in November 1942.
Her captain was Commander Frederick Julian Becton. Becton had been aboard a nearby destroyer the night the first Laffey went down at Guadalcanal. He had watched her die. Now he commanded the ship that carried her name.
The Laffey went to war fast. On June 6 1944 she was off the coast of Normandy supporting the D-Day landings. A German shell struck her but failed to explode. She broke up a German torpedo boat attack and shelled the fortress at Cherbourg.
Then the Navy sent her to the other side of the world.
By early 1945 she was in the Pacific. She supported the landings at Leyte and Lingayen Gulf in the Philippines. She escorted American aircraft carriers during airstrikes against Tokyo itself.
In April 1945 she arrived off the island of Okinawa.
The USS Laffey was an Allen M. Sumner class destroyer built at Bath Iron Works in Maine. She was commissioned in February 1944. She was just over 376 feet long and carried a crew of around 336 men.
She was named after Seaman Bartlett Laffey, a Civil War sailor who had earned the Medal of Honor. She was the second ship to carry the name. The first USS Laffey had been sunk in a point blank gun battle with Japanese warships off Guadalcanal in November 1942.
Her captain was Commander Frederick Julian Becton. Becton had been aboard a nearby destroyer the night the first Laffey went down at Guadalcanal. He had watched her die. Now he commanded the ship that carried her name.
The Laffey went to war fast. On June 6 1944 she was off the coast of Normandy supporting the D-Day landings. A German shell struck her but failed to explode. She broke up a German torpedo boat attack and shelled the fortress at Cherbourg.
Then the Navy sent her to the other side of the world.
By early 1945 she was in the Pacific. She supported the landings at Leyte and Lingayen Gulf in the Philippines. She escorted American aircraft carriers during airstrikes against Tokyo itself.
In April 1945 she arrived off the island of Okinawa.
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The Laffey was assigned to radar picket duty.
It was the most dangerous job in the United States Navy. Radar picket ships were stationed alone, far ahead of the main American fleet, to detect incoming Japanese aircraft and give early warning. That meant they were the first ships the Japanese saw and the first ships the Japanese attacked. The kamikaze pilots threw themselves at the picket destroyers before they could reach the carriers behind them.
On April 16 1945 the Laffey was on radar picket station number 1, about 30 miles north of Okinawa.
That morning a force of about 50 Japanese aircraft came toward the American picket line. 22 of them singled out the Laffey.
At 8:30 in the morning the first dive bombers came screaming down out of the sky. The Laffey's gunners opened fire and knocked several of them into the sea. Then the attacks came faster than the crew could count. Aircraft dove on her from every direction at once. Dive bombers. Suicide planes loaded with explosives aimed directly at her decks.
For the next 80 minutes the Laffey fought for her life.
The Laffey was assigned to radar picket duty.
It was the most dangerous job in the United States Navy. Radar picket ships were stationed alone, far ahead of the main American fleet, to detect incoming Japanese aircraft and give early warning. That meant they were the first ships the Japanese saw and the first ships the Japanese attacked. The kamikaze pilots threw themselves at the picket destroyers before they could reach the carriers behind them.
On April 16 1945 the Laffey was on radar picket station number 1, about 30 miles north of Okinawa.
That morning a force of about 50 Japanese aircraft came toward the American picket line. 22 of them singled out the Laffey.
At 8:30 in the morning the first dive bombers came screaming down out of the sky. The Laffey's gunners opened fire and knocked several of them into the sea. Then the attacks came faster than the crew could count. Aircraft dove on her from every direction at once. Dive bombers. Suicide planes loaded with explosives aimed directly at her decks.
For the next 80 minutes the Laffey fought for her life.
Since its disconnection from Starlink, Russia is urgently pushing forward its own LEO high-speed satellite constellation called “Rassvet”.
Ukrainian communications expert Serhii “Flash” Beskrestnov analyses its status and prospects.
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Ukrainian communications expert Serhii “Flash” Beskrestnov analyses its status and prospects.
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“1. The enemy needs a ‘Russian StarLink’. Undoubtedly, Russia understands the importance of a high-speed data transmission system via low-orbit satellites, and it would be foolish to think they wouldn't pursue this direction. The question is just about timing.
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“2. I have no idea which agencies or structures in our country are monitoring this project and considering potential problems. I can only speak for myself. Since the first day of the war, I've been collecting all the information on this topic, trying to analyze and monitor it.
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Giant ground sloths (fossil below is at the wonderful La Brea Tar Pits Museum in L.A.) were big winners in the Great American Biota Interchange that began when the isthmus of Panama was created around 2.8 million years ago. They made it all the way from South America to Alaska.
The interchange was highly asymmetric: N to S migration success far exceeded S to N. Today about half of S American mammals derive from N American progenitors - whereas only 1/10 of N American mammals originated in S America (e.g., opossums, porcupines & armadillos).
Giant ground sloths co-existed with humans for thousands of years before becoming extinct on the mainland about 10,000 yrs ago and in the Caribbean about 5,000 yrs ago. Adorable tree sloths are their surviving descendants (the one below lives in the Brazilian Amazon).
@KangintheNorth @Thomas_Banacek @MartinTweats @monta2__ Think I know the question you're getting at, & it's a juicy one. How could "very good" beings sin?
Spent about 18 months pondering this, so I prob won't explain it convincingly in a few posts 😆 Bear with me, this is profound.
I noticed a few things. I'll also unroll this: 1/19
Spent about 18 months pondering this, so I prob won't explain it convincingly in a few posts 😆 Bear with me, this is profound.
I noticed a few things. I'll also unroll this: 1/19
@KangintheNorth @Thomas_Banacek @MartinTweats @monta2__ * In Gen 2:17, it's called "The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil."
I've heard many pastors speak about the evil they would come to know in eating of it, but I've never heard anyone speak of the GOOD they'd come to know. 2/19
I've heard many pastors speak about the evil they would come to know in eating of it, but I've never heard anyone speak of the GOOD they'd come to know. 2/19
@KangintheNorth @Thomas_Banacek @MartinTweats @monta2__ They would come to know the goodness of God in sending a Savior. Couldn't have known that had they never sinned.
It's like asking a fish, "How's the water?" "What's water?" 3/19
It's like asking a fish, "How's the water?" "What's water?" 3/19
1/🧵Are you actually “infected”… or slowly being poisoned – and misdiagnosed as having a viral illness? 🦠☠️
In my new deep-dive, I unpack how toxic exposures can perfectly mimic “germ” and “virus” infections.
🔗 Full article with 61 references: sayerji.substack.com/p/infected-or-…
In my new deep-dive, I unpack how toxic exposures can perfectly mimic “germ” and “virus” infections.
🔗 Full article with 61 references: sayerji.substack.com/p/infected-or-…
2/ Modern medicine is trained to see almost everything through an infection-first lens. 🧬🩺
Fever, fatigue, rash, GI upset, neurological issues… the default assumption is “virus” or “bacteria,” not pesticides, metals, or drug toxicity.
Fever, fatigue, rash, GI upset, neurological issues… the default assumption is “virus” or “bacteria,” not pesticides, metals, or drug toxicity.
3/ From contaminated water and air pollution to pharmaceuticals, household chemicals, and food additives – we live in an unprecedented toxic soup. 🌫️🍽️💊
Yet almost none of this is seriously considered when someone presents with “mysterious” illness.
Yet almost none of this is seriously considered when someone presents with “mysterious” illness.
